John Darnielle Quotes

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

I'm all about Ibiza, dance. I'm a bit of a Tulisa kid to be honest.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in that scene is personal vulnerability.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

Just because Lil Wayne made it cool don't mean that I'm a start wearin' the small pants or I'm gonna start doin' the dance songs.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.

I've always enjoyed dancing and going clubbing. I've always been interested in electronic music. I would love more than anything to see my music mutate into something that would be played in clubs. For sure.

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops... Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They're just kinda like, 'Now, now, now - do it, do it.'

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.